George Soros

Alive

Born: 8/12/1930 in Budapst, HungaryAge: 88

Full name: Schwartz GyorgyNoted For: currency speculator and investment fund manager; made $1 billion on the worst day of the 1992 British currency crisis. Convicted in France of insider trading (2005). Mega-doner to Democratic Party-aligned political groups in the U.S. (2004-).